Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Iselin woman’s purse snatched

    EDISON — An Iselin woman was the victim of a purse-snatching last week, police said. Patrolman Robert Dudash said the 28-year-old was approached by a suspect described as a Hispanic male, between 5 feet 4 inches and 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing approximately 150 pounds, with a chipped front tooth and a goatee, and…

  • Optician arrested on sex charge

    METUCHEN — Police arrested a longtime borough businessman and resident after he allegedly made inappropriate sexual overtures to a customer last week. Harold “Buddy” Suter, 62, was charged with criminal sexual contact at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, police said. Officer David Liantonio said a 22-year-old Metuchen female said she visited Suter’s Optique Unique (formerly…

  • No injuries in apt. complex fire

    EDISON — An apartment fire temporarily displaced residents of a Minebrook Road complex early last week, police said. Patrolman Robert Dudash said the resident of one apartment reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area of the refrigerator in her kitchen just before noon on Nov. 1. A smoke and fire condition quickly developed,…

  • Open space, historic preservation defeated

    Residents debate town BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Voters in Edison said no on Nov. 2 to 15 more years of using taxpayer money to preserve open space and also nixed a measure to preserve history. The vote to extend the current open space tax of 1 cent for…

  • Painting for charity

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff East Brunswick’s David Thorne paints the Old Franklin School building in Metuchen Oct. 23. A community service project is a requirement to become an Eagle Scout.

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff East Brunswick’s David Thorne paints the Old Franklin School building in Metuchen as part of his community service project to become an Eagle Scout. Story, page 3.

  • Man prescribes legal troubles

    EDISON — Police arrested a Marlboro man after he allegedly tried to prescribe himself a narcotic last week. Michael Dayock, 46, was charged with attempting to obtain a prescription by fraud at 10:15 a.m. on Nov. 4, according to Patrolman Robert Dudash. Dayock entered the Pathmark store in the Wick Plaza on Route 1 that…

  • Incumbents cruise to new terms on council

    Robust turnout as 72 percent of registered voters go to the polls BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer Metuchen Democratic Borough Council incumbents Alan Grossman and Catherine Totin were re-elected Nov. 2 by comfortable margins. Totin was the top vote-getter with 3,619 votes, and Grossman received 3,556, according to the Municipal Clerk’s…

  • Controversial nightclub no longer in operation

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Club Sleep is now closed. “About two weeks ago we were notified by the property owner that they changed the locks on the property,” Municipal Clerk John Mitch said last week. Mitch said the club’s liquor license had been returned to his office. “I…